There is a radical, effective, rich movement afoot funded by the limousine liberals who will impose their will on the little people, because they know better. The left loves ideas, hates people and will shove their dogma down your throat because they know what's best for you.

Take over ....without firing a shot. Soros used every election to spend and learn. And learn he did

Fred Barnes on Colorado Democrats:

Last January, a “confidential” memo from a Democratic political consultant
outlined an ambitious scheme for spending $11.7 million in Colorado this year to
crush Republicans. The money would come from rich liberal donors in the state
and would be spent primarily on defeating Senate candidate Bob Schaffer ($5.1
million) and Representative Marilyn Musgrave ($2.6 million), who is loathed by
liberals for sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
The overarching aim: Lock in Democratic control of Colorado for years to come.

Leaked memos have a way of revealing who’s on top and who’s not in politics
and which party has energy and momentum. In Colorado, Democrats are third in
registered voters (31.2 percent), behind both Independents (34.19 percent) and
Republicans (34.14 percent). But in the last two election cycles—2004 and
2006—they’ve routed Republicans, capturing the governorship, both houses of the
state legislature, a U.S. Senate seat, and two U.S House seats. Democrats are on
a roll and that’s not likely to change this year. Republicans are demoralized,
disorganized, and more focused on averting further losses in 2008 than on
staging a comeback.

The Democratic surge in Colorado reflects the national trend, but it involves
a great deal more. There’s something unique going on in Colorado that, if copied
in other states, has the potential to produce sweeping Democratic gains
nationwide. That something is the “Colorado Model,” and it's certain to be a
major topic of discussion when Democrats convene in Denver in the last week of
August for their national convention.

While the Colorado Model isn’t a secret, it hasn’t drawn much national
attention either. Democrats, for now anyway, seem wary of touting it. One reason
for their reticence is that it depends partly on wealthy liberals’ spending tons
of money not only on “independent expenditures” to attack Republican
office-seekers but also to create a vast infrastructure of liberal organizations
that produces an anti-Republican, anti-conservative echo chamber in politics and
the media.

Colorado is where this model is being tested and refined. And Republicans,
even more than Democrats, say that it’s working impressively. (For Republicans,
it offers an excuse for their tailspin.) Jon Caldara, president of the
Independence Institute, a conservative think tank based in Denver, says
Republicans around the country should be alarmed by the success of the Colorado
Model. “Watch out,” he says, “it’s coming to a state near you.”

This is a coup ............. on the American people. Ed Lasky writes of Soros, " is the number one funder of 527 groups in the
nation. He and his partners-Herb and Marion Sandler, Peter Lewis-are among the
top 5 donors to 527 groups. They often cooperate in a wide range of endeavors.
George Soros is not a supporter of the American-Israel alliance and has
castigated AIPAC and America's Jewish supporters of Israel. He has financial and
other ties to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Malley, Samantha Power, Barack Obama's
out reach guy to evangelicals (believe it or not)".

While he is a skilled candidate, Barack Obama's ability to
surprise, stun and sweep over the vaunted Clinton Machine to capture the
Democratic nomination was rooted in his background as a community organizer.
He's now turning those skills to the general election.

But liberals aren't just on the march on the presidential level.
This year, liberal activists are spending parts of the fortunes of their wealthy
donors to transform politics at the state and local level.

In 2005, billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70
super-rich liberal donors in Phoenix to evaluate why their efforts to defeat
President Bush had failed. One conclusion was that they needed to step up their
long-term efforts to dominate key battleground states. The donors formed a group
called Democracy Alliance to make grants in four areas: media, ideas, leadership
and civic engagement. Since then, Democracy Alliance partners have donated over
$100 million to key progressive organizations.

Take Colorado, which has voted Republican for president in nine
of the last 10 presidential elections. But in 2006, Colorado elected a
Democratic governor and legislature for the first time in over 30 years. Denver
will be the site for the party's 2008 presidential convention. Polls show Barack
Obama would carry the state today. This hasn't happened by chance. The Democracy
Alliance poured money into Colorado to make it a proving ground for how
progressives can take over a state.

Offshoots of leading liberal national groups were set up
including Colorado Media Matters in 2006, to correct "conservative
misinformation" in the media. Ethics Watch, a group modeled after Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was started and proceeded to file a
flurry of complaints over alleged campaign finance violations -- while refusing
to name its own donors.

Western Progress, a think tank to advance "progressive
solutions," opened its doors as did the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, one of
29 such groups around the country. Then there's Colorado Confidential, a project
of The Center for Independent Media, which subsidized liberal bloggers. CIM has
set up similar ventures in Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan, with funding from
groups such as the Service Employees International Union, and George Soros's
Open Society Institute.

On the electoral front, Progressive Majority Colorado has set up
seven offices with the goal of "recruiting progressive leaders" as candidates.
America Votes-Colorado promises to coordinate the largest voter mobilization
effort in the state's history. "All of this activity has flown under the radar,"
says Ed Morrissey of the conservative blog Captain's Quarters. "But efforts to
change the political ground game may have real long-term consequences."

More audaciously, in Michigan, signatures have been filed to put
a sweeping reorganization of state government on this November's ballot. The
measure, pushed by a group called "Reform Michigan Government Now," contains at
least 36 distinct provisions that take up a dozen pages of fine type. "It's a
Trojan Horse dressed up as My Friend Flicka," says Lawrence Reed, president of
the conservative Mackinac Center.

In a recession-wracked state seething with public anger at
elected officials, the measure hits populist notes by cutting the size of the
legislature and reducing the salaries of top officeholders. But on voting, it
would mandate no-excuse-needed absentee voting -- despite a long history of
vote-fraud scandals involving absentee votes in Detroit and other cities. A
redistricting commission would be set up to reshape political boundaries, but
state courts would be barred from reviewing any plans it draws up. (Only federal
courts could review the boundaries.) Voters would also be barred from
rejecting or amending the commission's work by initiative.

[...]

"It's a strange reform that benefits one political party
exclusively at all three levels of the judiciary," observes Mr. Reed. "Is the
intent that the judiciary become just another arm of one of the political
parties?"

The financing for the initiative is mysterious and will not be
publicly revealed until campaign finance reports are due in late September or
early October. But the measure appears to be a Democratic effort. The campaign
is being quarterbacked by a former Democratic state legislative leader, and Mark
Brewer, the state's Democratic Party chair, says his party supports the
measure.

Should Mr. Obama be elected, he would become not just the head of
the Democratic Party but also the inspiration for a large number of liberal
groups. Some of them would no doubt lobby him to hand out taxpayer grants and
contracts for their nonpolitical "community" efforts.

Indeed, Mr. Obama has extensive connections with the granddaddy
of activist groups, Acorn (Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now), which has gotten millions in government grants for its low-income housing
programs. In 1992, Acorn hired Mr. Obama to run a voter registration effort. He
later became a trainer for the group, as well as its lawyer in election law
cases.

Acorn's political arm has endorsed Mr. Obama while its "voter
education" arm has pledged to spend $35 million to register people this fall --
despite a history of vote fraud scandals that have led to guilty pleas by many
Acorn employees.

The housing bill now before Congress would set up a slush fund
for community organizations such as Acorn. But Acorn has gone quiet in its
lobbying for the bill this week with the news that one of its employees -- the
brother of Acorn founder Wade Rathke -- had stolen nearly $1 million from the
group. Mr. Rathke decided not to alert law enforcement or the organization's
board, and kept his brother employed at Acorn until last month. "Is this the
kind of group we want getting taxpayer money?" asks Rep. Ed Royce (R.,
Calif.)

But Acorn may play, along with other liberal groups, a leading
role in electing Mr. Obama. Such groups deserve a closer look now, before their
influence and possibly their clout grow dramatically after the November
election.

WASHINGTON
- Last Thursday a federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted four
persons working for the group Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now, accusing them of submitting more than 15,000 voter
registration forms with fictitious names, phony signatures and bogus
addresses.

They number has been upped to under 40,000

ACORN
is a liberal advocacy group that claims to speak for the poor and
minorities — running these voter registration drives no doubt to prime
the pump for an Election Day voter turnout operation that includes
multiple voting by the same people at different precincts in a state
with a tightly contested Senate race.

"HARRISBURG - When you worked for former Rep. Mike Veon, the No. 2 Democrat
in the state House, two things were certain, prosecutors said: You would work
hard on political campaigns while on the government clock; and if you did a
"rock star" job, you would get something extra in your paycheck.

All compliments of the taxpayers, of course.

That illegal culture of underwriting political campaigns with public dollars
was spotlighted yesterday in sweeping indictments of Veon, 10 former and current
legislative aides, and a sitting lawmaker.

The allegations strike at top party staffers in the House, and more charges
are expected, say prosecutors. Court documents suggested that hundreds of
Democratic staffers might have been involved in illegal work.

The 12 are charged, in varying degrees, with theft and conflict of interest
for running a massive political campaign machine out of government offices from
Beaver County, where Veon lived, to the state Capitol.

The conspiracy within the House Democratic caucus, prosecutors say, was
widespread. It ranged from handing out taxpayer-funded bonuses for campaign work
to using state computers and telephones for political and personal purposes.

And speaking of Storm troopers for the left: Apparently Obama wants to create an army of lackeys, ""[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been
shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our
diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in
order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got
to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as
strong, just as well funded."
(Staggering, read it all at IBA)

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Liberal Storm Troopers

There is a radical, effective, rich movement afoot funded by the limousine liberals who will impose their will on the little people, because they know better. The left loves ideas, hates people and will shove their dogma down your throat because they know what's best for you.

Take over ....without firing a shot. Soros used every election to spend and learn. And learn he did

Fred Barnes on Colorado Democrats:

Last January, a “confidential” memo from a Democratic political consultant
outlined an ambitious scheme for spending $11.7 million in Colorado this year to
crush Republicans. The money would come from rich liberal donors in the state
and would be spent primarily on defeating Senate candidate Bob Schaffer ($5.1
million) and Representative Marilyn Musgrave ($2.6 million), who is loathed by
liberals for sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
The overarching aim: Lock in Democratic control of Colorado for years to come.

Leaked memos have a way of revealing who’s on top and who’s not in politics
and which party has energy and momentum. In Colorado, Democrats are third in
registered voters (31.2 percent), behind both Independents (34.19 percent) and
Republicans (34.14 percent). But in the last two election cycles—2004 and
2006—they’ve routed Republicans, capturing the governorship, both houses of the
state legislature, a U.S. Senate seat, and two U.S House seats. Democrats are on
a roll and that’s not likely to change this year. Republicans are demoralized,
disorganized, and more focused on averting further losses in 2008 than on
staging a comeback.

The Democratic surge in Colorado reflects the national trend, but it involves
a great deal more. There’s something unique going on in Colorado that, if copied
in other states, has the potential to produce sweeping Democratic gains
nationwide. That something is the “Colorado Model,” and it's certain to be a
major topic of discussion when Democrats convene in Denver in the last week of
August for their national convention.

While the Colorado Model isn’t a secret, it hasn’t drawn much national
attention either. Democrats, for now anyway, seem wary of touting it. One reason
for their reticence is that it depends partly on wealthy liberals’ spending tons
of money not only on “independent expenditures” to attack Republican
office-seekers but also to create a vast infrastructure of liberal organizations
that produces an anti-Republican, anti-conservative echo chamber in politics and
the media.

Colorado is where this model is being tested and refined. And Republicans,
even more than Democrats, say that it’s working impressively. (For Republicans,
it offers an excuse for their tailspin.) Jon Caldara, president of the
Independence Institute, a conservative think tank based in Denver, says
Republicans around the country should be alarmed by the success of the Colorado
Model. “Watch out,” he says, “it’s coming to a state near you.”

This is a coup ............. on the American people. Ed Lasky writes of Soros, " is the number one funder of 527 groups in the
nation. He and his partners-Herb and Marion Sandler, Peter Lewis-are among the
top 5 donors to 527 groups. They often cooperate in a wide range of endeavors.
George Soros is not a supporter of the American-Israel alliance and has
castigated AIPAC and America's Jewish supporters of Israel. He has financial and
other ties to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Malley, Samantha Power, Barack Obama's
out reach guy to evangelicals (believe it or not)".

While he is a skilled candidate, Barack Obama's ability to
surprise, stun and sweep over the vaunted Clinton Machine to capture the
Democratic nomination was rooted in his background as a community organizer.
He's now turning those skills to the general election.

But liberals aren't just on the march on the presidential level.
This year, liberal activists are spending parts of the fortunes of their wealthy
donors to transform politics at the state and local level.

In 2005, billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70
super-rich liberal donors in Phoenix to evaluate why their efforts to defeat
President Bush had failed. One conclusion was that they needed to step up their
long-term efforts to dominate key battleground states. The donors formed a group
called Democracy Alliance to make grants in four areas: media, ideas, leadership
and civic engagement. Since then, Democracy Alliance partners have donated over
$100 million to key progressive organizations.

Take Colorado, which has voted Republican for president in nine
of the last 10 presidential elections. But in 2006, Colorado elected a
Democratic governor and legislature for the first time in over 30 years. Denver
will be the site for the party's 2008 presidential convention. Polls show Barack
Obama would carry the state today. This hasn't happened by chance. The Democracy
Alliance poured money into Colorado to make it a proving ground for how
progressives can take over a state.

Offshoots of leading liberal national groups were set up
including Colorado Media Matters in 2006, to correct "conservative
misinformation" in the media. Ethics Watch, a group modeled after Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was started and proceeded to file a
flurry of complaints over alleged campaign finance violations -- while refusing
to name its own donors.

Western Progress, a think tank to advance "progressive
solutions," opened its doors as did the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, one of
29 such groups around the country. Then there's Colorado Confidential, a project
of The Center for Independent Media, which subsidized liberal bloggers. CIM has
set up similar ventures in Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan, with funding from
groups such as the Service Employees International Union, and George Soros's
Open Society Institute.

On the electoral front, Progressive Majority Colorado has set up
seven offices with the goal of "recruiting progressive leaders" as candidates.
America Votes-Colorado promises to coordinate the largest voter mobilization
effort in the state's history. "All of this activity has flown under the radar,"
says Ed Morrissey of the conservative blog Captain's Quarters. "But efforts to
change the political ground game may have real long-term consequences."

More audaciously, in Michigan, signatures have been filed to put
a sweeping reorganization of state government on this November's ballot. The
measure, pushed by a group called "Reform Michigan Government Now," contains at
least 36 distinct provisions that take up a dozen pages of fine type. "It's a
Trojan Horse dressed up as My Friend Flicka," says Lawrence Reed, president of
the conservative Mackinac Center.

In a recession-wracked state seething with public anger at
elected officials, the measure hits populist notes by cutting the size of the
legislature and reducing the salaries of top officeholders. But on voting, it
would mandate no-excuse-needed absentee voting -- despite a long history of
vote-fraud scandals involving absentee votes in Detroit and other cities. A
redistricting commission would be set up to reshape political boundaries, but
state courts would be barred from reviewing any plans it draws up. (Only federal
courts could review the boundaries.) Voters would also be barred from
rejecting or amending the commission's work by initiative.

[...]

"It's a strange reform that benefits one political party
exclusively at all three levels of the judiciary," observes Mr. Reed. "Is the
intent that the judiciary become just another arm of one of the political
parties?"

The financing for the initiative is mysterious and will not be
publicly revealed until campaign finance reports are due in late September or
early October. But the measure appears to be a Democratic effort. The campaign
is being quarterbacked by a former Democratic state legislative leader, and Mark
Brewer, the state's Democratic Party chair, says his party supports the
measure.

Should Mr. Obama be elected, he would become not just the head of
the Democratic Party but also the inspiration for a large number of liberal
groups. Some of them would no doubt lobby him to hand out taxpayer grants and
contracts for their nonpolitical "community" efforts.

Indeed, Mr. Obama has extensive connections with the granddaddy
of activist groups, Acorn (Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now), which has gotten millions in government grants for its low-income housing
programs. In 1992, Acorn hired Mr. Obama to run a voter registration effort. He
later became a trainer for the group, as well as its lawyer in election law
cases.

Acorn's political arm has endorsed Mr. Obama while its "voter
education" arm has pledged to spend $35 million to register people this fall --
despite a history of vote fraud scandals that have led to guilty pleas by many
Acorn employees.

The housing bill now before Congress would set up a slush fund
for community organizations such as Acorn. But Acorn has gone quiet in its
lobbying for the bill this week with the news that one of its employees -- the
brother of Acorn founder Wade Rathke -- had stolen nearly $1 million from the
group. Mr. Rathke decided not to alert law enforcement or the organization's
board, and kept his brother employed at Acorn until last month. "Is this the
kind of group we want getting taxpayer money?" asks Rep. Ed Royce (R.,
Calif.)

But Acorn may play, along with other liberal groups, a leading
role in electing Mr. Obama. Such groups deserve a closer look now, before their
influence and possibly their clout grow dramatically after the November
election.

WASHINGTON
- Last Thursday a federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted four
persons working for the group Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now, accusing them of submitting more than 15,000 voter
registration forms with fictitious names, phony signatures and bogus
addresses.

They number has been upped to under 40,000

ACORN
is a liberal advocacy group that claims to speak for the poor and
minorities — running these voter registration drives no doubt to prime
the pump for an Election Day voter turnout operation that includes
multiple voting by the same people at different precincts in a state
with a tightly contested Senate race.

"HARRISBURG - When you worked for former Rep. Mike Veon, the No. 2 Democrat
in the state House, two things were certain, prosecutors said: You would work
hard on political campaigns while on the government clock; and if you did a
"rock star" job, you would get something extra in your paycheck.

All compliments of the taxpayers, of course.

That illegal culture of underwriting political campaigns with public dollars
was spotlighted yesterday in sweeping indictments of Veon, 10 former and current
legislative aides, and a sitting lawmaker.

The allegations strike at top party staffers in the House, and more charges
are expected, say prosecutors. Court documents suggested that hundreds of
Democratic staffers might have been involved in illegal work.

The 12 are charged, in varying degrees, with theft and conflict of interest
for running a massive political campaign machine out of government offices from
Beaver County, where Veon lived, to the state Capitol.

The conspiracy within the House Democratic caucus, prosecutors say, was
widespread. It ranged from handing out taxpayer-funded bonuses for campaign work
to using state computers and telephones for political and personal purposes.

And speaking of Storm troopers for the left: Apparently Obama wants to create an army of lackeys, ""[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been
shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our
diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in
order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got
to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as
strong, just as well funded."
(Staggering, read it all at IBA)